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Ikaw (2021)
Only good thing about this movie was Sorsogon
I really wish the script was written better. Or maybe differently. Or someone should have just scrapped it and written an entirely new script.
It started out okay but typical- successful real estate broker Dee has bad luck with love, goes back home to her province for grandmother's birthday and falls for forgotten high school classmate, simple provincial copra/making tuba-drinking everyman Edong. Both are orphaned, both have lives of their own.
Along the way the grandma gets sick and her restaurant closes, Dee learns to cook, her auntie has an old lover who she ignores but yearns for, they go to the beach and have fun but adding is said because has to sell half his land, they admit they like each other, auntie elopes with lover, dee decides to move back to the city but decides to stay, Edong declares his love, they become bf/gf, then he proposes, they get married, then he gets lost in sea and is presumed dead.
This was probably supposed to be a multi-episodic teleserye (telenovela) but instead turned it into a 2-hr movie. Too many storylines that didn't necessarily move the story forward, weren't cohesive, and came out of nowhere. I'm all for a tragic storyline, it's sad but it happens-but why did it need to happen here? There was no smoking gun, there was no set-up, there was nothing except the movie people wanting to end the movie with some forced tears. Like another reviewer mentioned, all I felt in the end was relief that the movie finally ended, and i could sufficiently say that I didn't like it.
I have been a fan of Pepe Herrera ever since I watched him in Rak of Aegis, I think he's a great comedic dramatic actor and I'm genuinely confused why he is in this. As for Janine Gutierrez, she's cute but can't act to save this movie-as far as I can see, she's a product of a long line of actors and her grandma in the movie is in fact her grandma in real life and that's what she has going for her.
I know this way too wordy for a negative review but...they just wasted the beauty that was Bicol on this badly written story. The setting was the best character in the whole movie.